Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 2

I looked at the pictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus that are painted there upon the walls of the houses, colossal figures reaching from the ground to the roof.

Who acts: I, Christopher, colossal figures · What happens: look, carry, paint, reach · To what, where: Infant Jesus, walls, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Christopher, colossal figures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 pictures	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pictures	det
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Christopher	case
7	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Christopher	nmod:desc
8	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pictures	nmod
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 Christopher	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Jesus	det
11	Infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Jesus	amod
12	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 painted	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 painted	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 painted	aux:pass
15	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 carrying	ccomp
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 painted	advmod
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 walls	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 painted	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 houses	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 houses	det
22	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walls	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 figures	punct
24	colossal	colossal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 figures	amod
25	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 houses	appos
26	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 figures	acl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reaching	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 roof	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 roof	det
32	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reaching	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	I			at the pictures of Christopher St.	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme
2	carry	gerund	Christopher St. not said here				tree rules
3	paint	present · passive		the Infant Jesus	the walls of the houses; there		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon wall=Destination
4	reach	gerund	colossal figures not said here		the ground	to the roof	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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